Category: National News

On June 20, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Wal-Mart in a grueling 11-year case dubbed the largest civil rights suit in American history. In 2000, then 54-year-old Betty Dukes sued the massive corporation after realizing she’d never had an opportunity for advancement training and promotions like her male colleagues. However, the court ruled […]

One presidential candidate’s perspective on race has ignited commentary and discussion about racial identity and its importance in the 2012 race. When Bloomberg News interviewed Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, the conservative said he did not like to be labeled as “African-American”—instead, he said he preferred “American.” “I don’t like people trying to label me. […]

First lady Michelle Obama will travel to Africa during the week of June 20 as part of an ongoing effort to promote youth leadership, education, health and wellness. During her trip, scheduled from June 20 to June 26, the First Lady will travel to Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town in South Africa and Gaborone, Botswana. […]

Summer has not yet begun and it’s already been an alarming weather year for the United States. A reported 1,384 tornadoes and floods have torn across, upended and destroyed many communities in Arkansas, Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee and Massachusetts. Even areas where populations are relatively used to these severe seasonal […]

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) will hold its annual summer convention next week in Chicago, Ill. This year’s celebration will take place June 22-25, at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. Established 69 years ago, the NNPA is made up of more than 200 Black-owned community newspapers around America and serves as a gateway for […]

Touring the major sites of the Civil Rights Movement with Julian Bond is a little like touring England with a Beatle. Celebrities do him favors, young people flock to take his picture, and women sometimes admit to having a decades-long crush on him. Bond, now a university professor, was once one of the movement’s best-known […]

The founder of a London-based model management company says it’s hard to find commercial modeling work for dark-skinned women because designers in fashion capitals Milan and Paris “absolutely don’t want Black girls.” Carole White, founder of Premier Model Management and former agent of Naomi Campbell, made the remarks during an interview with the UK news […]

An Alameda (Calif.) Circuit Court jury June 9 convicted two men of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Oakland Black journalist Chauncey Bailey, as he walked to work. Bailey, editor-in chief of the Oakland Post was working on investigative reports of questionable activities by a local community group, Your Black Muslim Bakery. Yusuf Bey […]

Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emmanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) has vowed to fight for a jobs bill given the high unemployment rate among African Americans. Cleaver lays at least part of the blame for slow job growth for African Americans on Republican Party insistence on cutting programs that help inner city and minority communities. “After four […]

When Barack Obama ascended to the White House in 2009 as the nation’s first Black president with the help of millions of first time voters, some pundits and commentators were quick to declare America, and its younger generations, colorblind. But a recent study finds that many young people between the ages of 18 and 30 […]

Black workers may be hit hardest as the lingering recession and the political drive to shrink federal and state spending are resulting in a dwindling number of government jobs, according to recently released Labor Department estimates. Data released in a June 6 Labor Department analysis convey a startling picture for Black participation in the public […]

When Republican lawmakers swept to power last November, they promised voters that the 112th Congress would be noted for the quality of legislation that passed the House, not the quantity. However, weeks of seemingly unquenchable debate over Medicare vouchers, next year’s budget and the nation’s debt limit may have made that ambitious campaign promise far […]